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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) continues to shrink the world. As major players are facing increasing difficulties in coping with the global demand, Sri Lanka is emerging as a world's ICT destination of choice. The island is steadily transforming itself into the most preferred ICT hub in Asia thanks to the availability of the most precious resource in the world - talent. It has also become the 4th largest export earner of the country. ICT services are the 4th largest export earner of the country. The Sri Lankan ICT sector serves a number of Industry verticals with over 300 companies at present. These include Communication, Apparel and Textiles, Banking Financial Services & Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media, Retailing, Transportation, Travel and Leisure and many more.  What is SLASSCOM?    SLASSCOM (Sri Lankas Association for Software and Services Companies) is the national chamber for the IT industry in Sri Lanka. They act as the cat...

 Are you willing to know the difference between software engineering and computer science?                 For instance, the key difference here is that computer science education program focuses on the science behind making computers work, while software engineering applies those scientific and mathematical principles to the building, designing and implementation of hardware and software programs. Differences between computer science and software engineering. 1. Core educational studies Computer science and software engineering may share some overlapping core studies, however, when studying computer science students may typically complete courses that focus on the computing, analysis, storage and application of data and data systems of computer programs and software. Software engineering focuses on taking these principles and applying them to the product design, interplay, performance and other functio...

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 Bachelor Of Software Engineering(hons) OUSL   The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) intends to achieve a targeted US$ 5bn export revenue from the software industry by 2025. The industry estimates to reach this target, an additional 200,000 IT qualified personnel would be required. Meanwhile, a recent survey identified that even to sustain the present growth, the Sri Lankan IT industry requires more than 12,000 additional graduates a year. The GoSL has identified that an urgent solution to this burning issue could only be addressed by the Open University of Sri Lanka , the only state-owned national university conducting study programmes in the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode. Therefore, the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) together with the University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to rise to this national challenge by admitting 10,000 students to its Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) and other IT d...